Maryland Route 173

Maryland Route 173
Maryland Route 173 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by MDSHA and Baltimore DOT
Length	13.78 mi[1][2] (22.18 km)
Existed	1927–present
Major junctions
South end	Fort Smallwood Park near Jacobsville
Major intersections	MD 607 in Jacobsville I-695 in Baltimore MD 710 in Baltimore MD 171 in Baltimore
North end	I-895 Toll / MD 2 in Baltimore
Location
Country	United States
State	Maryland
Counties	Anne Arundel, City of Baltimore
Highway system
Maryland highway system Interstate US State Scenic Byways
← MD 172 → MD 174

Maryland Route 173 (MD 173) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its length as Fort Smallwood Road, the state highway runs 13.78 miles (22.18 km) from Fort Smallwood Park near Jacobsville north to MD 2 in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Baltimore. MD 173 connects the beach communities of Riviera Beach and Orchard Beach in northeastern Anne Arundel County and Interstate 695 (I-695) with industrial areas in the Baltimore neighborhoods of Hawkins Point and Curtis Bay, including the United States Coast Guard Yard. MD 173 was mostly constructed in the 1920s and early 1930s. The state highway was put in its modern form with the completion of the bridge over Stony Creek in the late 1940s and expansion to a divided highway between Orchard Beach and Curtis Bay in the late 1970s.